The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-07-21
THE REBEL FLAGS.
Speech OF Hon. s. 8. Cox.


Hon. 8 s. Cox. of New York, for
merly of Ohio. L. a speech delivered
at the Fourth OF July celebration at
Tammany Hall, alluded to the subject
of the rebel flags, as follows:
- The incident was as simple as it
was harmless. These flags are of no
sort of consequence except as symbO
of conflict the memory of which
should be buried with its heroes in til
graves of the dead past, as an indemni
iy for loss and security for good fel
lowship. Father of mercy! Is there
TO be no sulCease of this strfe-worse
than that of bayouet and gun?
Time rolls along! A quarter of a
century elapses! A new generation
appears! Slavery is dead! Slaves are
counted one for one in the representa-
tion. The amendments of the consti-
tuition are unquestioned. The South
is fraterpal they meet in one common
congress; they vote pensions to their
late enemies; they meet together. as
at Gettysburg. upon the old fields of
strife, to renew their pledges to united
couutry-are proud to recognize the
sentiment of Cicero-one thought for
the Republic! [Cheers.1 The flags of
| the battle lie molderiDg in the attic of
the war department. a tender-illegal
but generous-is made these now
symbols of the unhappy strife, when
10 cataclysm that has no parallel for
violence. noice and quake since the
world began A party without an
issue, a party without hope, seizss on
this innocent and clement thought to
arouse into flame the embers, almost
fireless. of sectional hate. / can fiud
no parallel or illustration for the un-
seemly performance. beg pardon l
have one:
! '' Last summer it was my pleasure
to live in one of the isles of the princes.
1t is called Prinkipos. 1t is a few
miles below CopstantinOlle lie, ia the sea
of Marmora 1t is sort of saratoga
for pleasure and health seekers, set on
i mountainous island of pines-a par
adtse-a new South, bursting out oi
the old and harried Propontis! There
was one drawback to the pleasures oi
Prinkipos The isle, like that ia
Shakespeare's Tempest was full oi
strange noises. Not the nightingale
in the evening, nor the cocks at dawn
nor the shepherds, nor the vendors OF
fish, nor the dry cicada, nor the far
of the American flag in front of oul
legation These were pleasures anu
they did not Interrupt my morning
dreams, but haIk when the sun paints
in gold and purple the Asian noun
tains L hear an equivOcal sort of bruit
Is it the distant thunder of Jove from
Mount Olympus, in sight of our ish !
Is it the rolling of the Ismid traiu
across the channel? 1t starts afar! il
approaches 1t is-No7 Yes? IL 1
| ha orr n nf ion
Roars of prolonged laughter l.
rights the isle from Its propriety
Be it known that the isle is full o
donkeys They carry water and veg
etables-and tOurists-up and down
and over the mou ,taius. L am no
unigiendly TO the donkey. He has
good name for patience and industry
| was familiar with them in and ou
of Congress. | admire their courage
They can whip a California grizz y
Most of those who are donkeys dom
know it. and therefore they are don
keys. daughter When they know
it they are not doukeys. The Rapub
licans don't know it Laughter Blu
! must draw the line ON some OF hi
qualities. L draw it on the bray
When Jack salutes his Jenny, though
miles apart, then the jubilee of nois,
affection begins. 1t is an inferna
concert, amorous. jocund and ear be
I numDing. 1t starts with an exa.ger
: ated case of asthma. This rasps you
soul. The beast loses, then catches
its breath with q harsh, squeakish sib
ilation, until q roar as of forty hungr,
lions comes to its relief. Laughter
; All powers of whee ~, whistling gasp
ling suction are exhausted. Then fol
low, terrific expiratiOns of the below
ing monster. Suction and emission
, repeated with 'damnable iteration
{ until The noise dies out in an agon
$ unutterable. / used To hear, when
boy, the creaking of the untarre
r Wheels of the Conestoga wagon froI
/ Pennsylvania. 1 have lately bear
' the screaming shadoof turned by bin
. butfaioes, pumping the Nile upon tn
I fruitful land of Egypt, but never be
!, fore ltOr since have l heard such
diabOlical concert as this. braying {
!, the dOnkeys of PrinkapOs-until Fol
J, aker got the asthma about the flag
4 Fairchiid got the palsy and job
Sherman both. Roars of laughter
Wisconsin took up the asinine strain
Ohio gives its sonorOus bray, and NJ,
York, with her new Senator and ht
Greeley Tribune-U beg pardon
Horace Greeley Not Gre ey's Tr
y bune)-adds her furious illumination
All bedlam was let loose in a howl [
: horror-and all for what? II not |
provoke assassination, at least to. r,
gain political power; not by the sti
small voice of reason, but by the ell,
mentary fury which is as senseless 6
= it is tenn mpestuous. Do these howie
|. think the people do not know wins
: the incident meant? A tender
may be inopportune and illegal-but
: tender of kindly regard, after gene
alton of the warp and the woof, th
y mere threads. the colOred emblems
lost cause, which all good men wOul
= desire to be forgotten.
When Charles Sumner offered [
's erase the names of the battles upon OF
+ flags Massachusetts proposed to dra
black lines around his hOnored nam
He was q student. he had read Ii
words of the Roman that it was wis
II to build q bridge of gold for retrea
o ing soldier in civil war. He read tt
words of the Roman Senator that a
trophies of such civil contests mold,
aud pass away. He had read the an
+. DesLy at the games of conguere
If Athens, and in his mind he heal
:, again the bugle of the Roman heral
proclaimiDg amnesty and grace frol
's Rome to conquered Greece! He hs
?. read and pondered something bette
n Perhaps he had heard the psalm of tt
Hebrew King-as he chanted of tt
3 deliverance of his people from bondal
IL Then was our mouth filled viii
20 laughter and our tongue with singin
r. The Lord hath done great things fl
- US, whereof we are glad. Turn agai
y our captivity. o Lord, as the strean
y in the SOUTH These studies of civ
81 war and of amnesty have not been u
l. recreation or joy of the Republics
:, leaders. They read the gospel of al
- archy and rejoice in the covenant
9. death and hell. This governor
it Ohio. who 40 inaptly fills the pla